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Don't believe the other raters who say this movie is boring, it isn't, at all. In fact I was surprised when the hour and twenty odd minutes had passed. I'm also glad it did wear out it's welcome, it could have dragged on and that would have been wasteful.

Now for the story. Yes, Jodie is a sad, angry, jealous, very lonely and sometimes vulgar (leaving a number 2 for your friends to see) middle aged woman. She has the emotional quotient of a pre-teen and doesn't seem to understand how her actions and harsh tones is off putting. When people try to get close to her, friend her, like the cousin "Ashley", who was just trying to bond with her woman to woman, she just leaves.

With Dusten (the love interest from the GNR concert), she lashes out, insults and even commands him to drive in the first 5 minutes of meeting. When he's trying to just be nice and hang out she again lashes out in what I expect is her first response to push them away as everyone does to her in the end. Not sure why he didn't run from the offset? Once we get to the "romantic" scene, she almost rapes him.

The next morning as she's had some sort of intimacy with him, which may be the deepest conversation she's had with the opposite (non gay sex), she becomes a stage 5 clinger...first spooning, then chasing to the washroom offering no boundaries between them and the offer to help regardless of the personal invasion. She then texts, calls, calls, calls, leaves message....then after working up the nerve, confront and attack. Clearly the desperation is oozing out of every pore and he cannot get away fast enough.

Upon returning she explains From her perspective what happened with Dusten. She exaggerates not only how much he came on to her but the very private story of his wife (burning down the house), albeit she was stoned when listening or waiting to talk as she doesn't have the EQ to have a compassionate conversation. Then as she goes on, she believes she just needs to get out there in a big way. This part made me sad for her. To have no self esteem, I really felt for her. It also made me sad this Is a reality and we wonder why people in today's society have issues finding real connections.

Some people say Jodie stayed static throughout the movie; however, I disagree. I think in end she realizes that she's enough. She sees what positives she has, the people around her and the thing she wants to do, her small dream. Overall, I found this movie hard to rate. I thought the acting was done very well throughout the film. It was raw, unfiltered and a movie that makes you think and I believe will stay with me. It will not be a movie for everyone. I think if you prefer high morality in your movies, skip this, it will not be for you. If you are interested in human emotions, reasons people are the way they are, raw humanity and the society we are now evolving into, this movie will be for you.

The movie wasn't all that bad, but I thought it started out good. They could've done a better job with the premise, though.

The main character was obviously going through something. She had a terrible attitude, with a big mouth and I think that's why she couldn't find a steady boyfriend. I don't think she was a nice friend either.

This move has some interesting elements, but there were some very poor decisions made in the writing.

The movie is largely a one woman show for Anna Schlegel, and she carries off the part wonderfully.

However, and this a big however, the character she plays is at her core a largely unpleasant character. At 36 years of age she is a real woman-child, intensely focused on herself and largely oblivious to the needs of those her around. While I wanted to like her, partly because large ladies are rarely given such prominence in the media, I really struggled to connect to her. She is aggresively belligerent, she yells conversations, she's emotionally entitled, she makes a vast range of frankly stupid life choices and seems to have no idea what people other than her want in the world. There is zero personal arc in this movie either, she ends it the same person she starts it as, this is just Chapter 174 in her miserable life.

In one scene she cries like a baby, she spits out the sandwich she was eating and lets it rest on her shoulder while she cries and cries. I get that she's probably deeply sad, but this movie finds no way of showing you how or why or what about the sadness. It justs plain self pity. Somewhere in here they could have made me care, cos I wanted to, but I just didnt.

If one of my buddies went out with Jodie (and the move is all about Jodies need for a partner to solve all her problems) I would advise him with all the vigour I have about the massive red flags she waves at full mast. She does have one brief encounter in the movie and very wisely the man heads for the hills the first chance he gets. It was a smart move, nothing convinces me that he would have been sensible to pursue this. Her interaction in a partnership would be emotionally greedy and intensely juvenile in nature. What, didnt look at your phone for 30mins and answer her 5 texts? Well theres gonna be a screaming match the moment you see her next.

She just isnt worth it, the movie shows us that, all relationships require a certain quid-pro-quo to work, she would be all quo and no pro (yeah yeah.. i know, but you get the point).

So ultimately, what was the point the writer was trying to make?

That unpleasant and unappealing personalities deserve love? Cos once you reach adulthood they dont, no one really 'deserves' it, you earn it in some way.

And I struggled to see how poor Jodie could earn it.

Interesting idea, interesting filming, very poorly executed in my opinion.

Its like the insult Pig Hag was taken literally by the people writing about her. Which is sad.

The film has no storyline. My friends and I saw this at SXSW and we left the theater feeling like it was a massive waste of time when we could be enjoying other things. Allow me to explain my distain. In the film the main character is no more than a whiny and needy child with no morals and a talent for pushing everyone away. The character doesn't really have an arc and stays rather stagnant throughout the course of the film. Although she's the main character of the writers seem to make her character an afterthought. What was the point of the whole Guns N' Roses thing other than to introduce a romantic interest only to have him scared off by the main characters clinginess and general insanity? What was the point of having all of the freaking text messages from no one?

On a technical side note: the sound was off when she was going through her epic freak out. It when from a full sound to her voice echoing. And the sound of the condom wrappers sounded like half full bags of chips at times.

Instead of saying stop texting me, just block the number. That was kinda annoying

On one hand it is easy to feel sorry for the main character, at first. On other, as movie goes on it becomes very blatantly obvious that it is her own fault, and that she has zero intentions of changing anything about herself.

If it was a movie about obese, unlikeable child, maybe it would get a 5/10, but by the time woman is 36 years old she had at least two solid decades to correct herself. You do not wake up at 36, childless and weighting in at over 300 pounds, alone, lonely, trying to find dates online, and with your only friends gay men, and then asking any guy you meet if he ever had sexual contact with another man, without making a LOT of bad, bad, bad choices along the way.

By the end of the film any sympathy I had towards her has left the building. What I was left looking at was extremely lazy, unpleasant, psychotic, insane character, ... without any point being made. Nothing actually happens of any consequence throughout entire movie. She begins as a lonely weirdo, and ends as such, and yet apparently meets plenty of men willing to have sex with her which is just messed up and seems to attempt to portray all straight men as unable to control themselves, even if woman looks like Jabba the Hutt.

As a man I can tell you that I, and most other men, would rather become a monk than tap her. Maybe most men have lower standards, but this woman falls below even very low ones.

So, yeah, Jodie is angry, perhaps entitled and childish. I would have blocked Mitch from the Internet the first time he texted beyond telling him to stop. Jodie's emotionality may be off-putting, but it's so real... Her friends and their love and support in helping Jodie to actually live her best life are my favorite part of this film. I really enjoyed this movie. The way dating has changed and the way the internet has played a role in the evolution of dating and loneliness are portrayed artfully here. This film won't be relatable to everyone, perhaps, but I am grateful it was made and I hope it can change the worldview of some who stumble upon it, at least.

Watching Pig Hag was a kind of therapeutic experience for me, something I did not expect at all. Let me clear a couple of things first: I'm not obese, not in my mid-thirties, and can go into a relationship with someone I like if I want to, on the other hand, I could relate to Jodie in the sense that no dick or nicety was capable of filling the hole inside her, the one created by the lack of self-esteem and years of being bullied. Even in a miracle scenario where Prince Charming on a white horse appears to make her his wife, we know that she will never be the happy spouse in those fairy tales, because abuse leaves marks, and in this case, a life time of trust issues. Jodie showed me that I'm not the only one, and that it is okay to find other ways to have fun.